Word: lacing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine more Corsairs dived down to lace the island with rockets and machine guns...
...Variety, by way of explaining the secret of her success. Way back "when the rest of the gals at Minsky's were working on the third layer of skin [and covering] themselves with a dark blue spotlight, I covered myself with a Shubert pink and black lace undies...
...Arsenic and Old Lace, the picture manages nevertheless to make its irreverence amusing while generally clearing the hurdles of poor taste. It trips only when it tries to be conventional, i.e., with a love triangle in which Victor Mature, as a claims investigator, and local Insurance Agent Leif Erickson compete for the affections of Stella (Ann Sheridan), the family breadwinner, who is horrified by the schemes hatched by her ne'er-do-well relatives. As the kind of simple-shrewd, irresponsible character he plays best, Wayne is really the star of the movie, and he gets fine support from...
Died. Saly Mayer, 68, Swiss lace manufacturer credited with saving some 200,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps; of a heart attack; in St. Moritz, Switzerland. When the Nazis, in the spring of 1944, offered to trade the lives of Hungary's remaining Jews for 10,000 trucks (plus 800 tons of coffee, 200 tons of tea, 2,000,000 bars of soap), Mayer, representing the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, undertook a protracted bluffing game (the J.D.C. and the U.S. Government agreed that no ransom would be delivered), kept negotiations going until Hitler's regime...
Last week, in the Napoleonic wing of Venice's Royal Palace, the results were on exhibit. The artists' ideas of work ranged from lace-making and bookkeeping to coal-heaving, and a few did portraits of themselves at work at their easels...